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Tag: Yoga Teacher Training

Advice from a Recovering Academic

It was Valentine’s Day, 2013. I had waited all day in fear, as fellow tenure-bound colleagues celebrated with online posts conveying relief and joy. When I finally got the evening call from the dean of liberal arts, “I’m sorry, there just wasn’t enough,” he said. That was it, a quick and sudden death of my… Read More Advice from a Recovering Academic

September 4, 2018September 4, 2018 lsbanu4 Comments

Wobblyogi Wednesday- YTT Journal Week 20

Graduation! Where did the time go???? We officially graduated from our 200 hour yoga teacher training yesterday. I was just getting started. Yoga is so much bigger and so much more generous than I ever imagined. There is a path for everyone and the fun part is discovering your own. I came to yoga to… Read More Wobblyogi Wednesday- YTT Journal Week 20

June 15, 2016March 7, 2018 lsbanu3 Comments

Wobblyogi Wednesday – YTT Journal Week 16

I am a wobbyogi and I am scared of head stands. There…..I confessed. I don’t enjoy being upside down, never have, even as a kid. Struggled through gym class unable to do a forward roll or a cartwheel. Last time I tried hanging upside down in an aerial yoga class I felt nauseous and dizzy.… Read More Wobblyogi Wednesday – YTT Journal Week 16

May 18, 2016 lsbanu2 Comments

Wobblyogi Wednesday- YTT Journal Week 15

We are at 15 weeks! How fantastic that our yoga training keeps broadening into an endless horizon. I’m excited about exploring this sense of an internal landscape with high points and low, movement and stillness, sunshine and rain. For the first time in my life instead of looking outward for answers, in books, in art,… Read More Wobblyogi Wednesday- YTT Journal Week 15

May 11, 2016March 7, 2018 lsbanuLeave a comment

Wobblyogi Wednesday – YTT Journal

  It has happened. I’ve taught my first 15 minutes of a real yoga class (outside the comfort zone of my fellow trainees) today. I mumbled, forgot to breathe, relied on notes too much, missed modification cues, was lost for a moment and probably missed other things I don’t even know. And…… it was wonderful!… Read More Wobblyogi Wednesday – YTT Journal

May 4, 2016 lsbanu7 Comments

Wobblyogi Wednesday – YTT Journal Week 9

I’m starting to lose track of the weeks! 8, 9, 10 I don’t know.  I suppose it is a good thing that the learning process is becoming more routine. Still lots to learn. Working on sequencing, anatomy, voice, teaching 5-minute segments of a class and more. The poses are getting more familiar and breathing more… Read More Wobblyogi Wednesday – YTT Journal Week 9

April 6, 2016March 7, 2018 lsbanuLeave a comment

Wobblyogi Wednesday -YTT Journal Week 7

This week we tried to twist, bind, open our hips and open our mind (by reading the first book of Patanjali). My brain is unlikely to recover. All my adult life I have worked to expand my mind, to use the art of reasoning, to imagine things…so much so that I studied architecture and philosophy… Read More Wobblyogi Wednesday -YTT Journal Week 7

March 23, 2016March 23, 2016 lsbanuLeave a comment

Wobblyogi Wednesday – YTT Journal Week 5

  I find myself surprised to be at week 6 reporting on week 5. Where did the time go? It feels long in terms of how much I’ve learned and short in terms of knowing that there is so much more to learn. This week was mostly devoted to discussing the history, the branches and… Read More Wobblyogi Wednesday – YTT Journal Week 5

March 9, 2016 lsbanu2 Comments

Wobblyogi Wednesday – YTT Journal Week 4

My body and heart are beginning to feel the difference a month makes of regular yoga practice. I feel fantastic! Never better. Really. I can touch my toes in dandasana. I can reach a little further, breathe a little slower, quiet my mind faster and notice much more. I also am aware of all the… Read More Wobblyogi Wednesday – YTT Journal Week 4

March 2, 2016March 2, 2016 lsbanu2 Comments

Wobblyogi Wednesday – YTT Journal Week 3

This week we were asked to team teach two fifteen minute sequences of standing and balancing poses. Both times, my partners and I tried to insert standing poses like the wide legged forward bend, trikonasona, extended side angle and the pyramid (or balancing poses like tree, dancer, half moon) smoothly into a sequence. Small  moves… Read More Wobblyogi Wednesday – YTT Journal Week 3

February 23, 2016February 24, 2016 lsbanu5 Comments

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